THE NEW MASCULINITY

THE SITUATION AFTER THAT THE SANITARY CRISIS WILL BE SOLVED  Today is Saturday, April 25, that means that in Italy is the Liberation day , but Italians are still in lockdown. Some companies will open and people will be free to move, at least in their cities, only from Monday, 4 May. The deadline is very close and now the biggest problem, after the sanitary crisis, will be how to solve the economic situation. Many companies will be failed, others will have important loans with the banks. In this period, where there is no cash, people are looking for financial (and not only) help. The government is losing many moneys due to the situation and can’t provide many benefits. This means that people have to find help from a different source: in many cases the mafia and other criminal organizations are ready to support them. Now it’s not so important the source from where you receive the money, but that you can survive. In fact, a report by Europol  - the European Union police ag...

Italy will be in Lockdown at least until the next 3 of May Italy is still in lockdown. According to the Prime Minister Conte, it will be at least until the next 3 of May. He had extended the lockdown, before expected until the 14 April. The news was quite predictable, because the number of infected people is still high and there is no safety to start again the normal life. Anyway, almost all companies were disappointed caused they are still closed, instead abroad the economy is already taking off again. Now all the Italians have the same big question: what will happen after the 3 May? Will be everything as before? Of course, no one has the answer and it’s important to keep daily updated with the spread of the pandemy, but it is quite probably negative. And now the major Italian newspapers are trying to answer, to give to the readers' some relevant information. 3 Italian Journals in comparison  The journalist Alessandra Ziniti wrote in  La Repubblica   t...

Boys (don’t) cry WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN When a man loves a woman is a song of the American singer Percy Sledge, but not only. It’s even the last photographic book of the artist Molly Matalon. What’s happen when men are seen by a female perspective? How changed the way they are represented? The photographer answered these questions in his When a man loves a woman, published in April 2020. They became fragile, tender and full of feeling for their big loves. The man she shots are not the classic hyper-masculine characterization of a man, which is a really large, muscular guy, but they look vulnerable and soft. As they really are. THE METHOD In an interview for W Magazine , Molly Matalon explained how she chose the guys in her photographic book. “Some of the people in the book are people I meet on Tinder, but the range of men is so varied that it’s more about an attraction to men or a romantic look at men than it is about any one person.” The same method for ...

MASCULINITIES IS THE NEW VERSION OF PASOLINI'S LOVE MEETINGS  “ Masculinities ” is a playful, pastel-hued, talking heads film exploring gender roles, patriarchy and hegemonic masculinity. The editorial is presented by NOWNESS, a movement for creative excellence in storytelling celebrating the extraordinary of everyday. The movie is shown at the Barbican, the modern-art centre in London, for the temporary exhibition “ Masculinities: Liberation though Photography ” (already written here ). If Pier Paolo Pasolini was still alive, he would be for sure the director. In fact, the documentary seems to be the new version of his masterpiece “ Love meetings ” (1964), where the Italian intellectual asked to people questions about love, stereotypes and “deviant behaviours”.  Here, “ Masculinities ” brings together members of the British Public with Nowness’s creative community to deconstruct gender identity in its myriad forms. The cast includes gender fluid designer Harris Re...